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Affinity is an award-winning Australian contemporary style of gin, delivering a range of incredibly warm and well-rounded complementary flavours. Notes of traditional Juniper, a sliver of Orange citrus burst, delicate floral notes, rich spice, and the natural sweetness of Vanilla Bean and Almonds. Karu lovingly grow Lemon Myrtle in their distillery garden, adding the fresh myrtle leaves directly into the botanical basket when distilling. The rest of their botanicals are sustainably sourced, mostly from small-scale farms.

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KARU Affinity Gin

KARU Distillery

Karu's unconventionally smooth navy strength gin has picked up the trophy for Best Contemporary Gin in the IWSC 2021. Boasting double Juniper and a slightly drier profile compared to its sibling, Affinity. Lightning features triple citrus tiers of herbaceous Lemon Myrtle, bitter Ruby Grapefruit, and sweet Mandarin, however, Rose Geranium is the standout botanical here. Picked fresh from Karu's own distillery garden, the Rose Geranium provides a lingering composition of beautiful herbaceous and floral notes. Finally, a mild buzz fills your lips whilst notes of garden rain remain from the freshly collected mountain rainwater at the distillery.

Navy Strength Gin

KARU Lightning Gin

Impression is a bold but clean, fresh tipple. Highlighting citrus notes from the Kakadu plum, the earthy flavour and slight bitterness of calendula, cut through with the sweet and refreshing taste from the mangosteen and tied together with the aromatic, fresh, minty sent of the finger lime. The subtle flavour is perfect with soda or tonic.

Born to be different Impression is a bold gin made up of a powerhouse list of ingredients such as mangosteen, calendula, Kakadu plum, finger lime and aloe vera. Designed to sit in your non-traditional gin basket Impression does just that. Time to pour, sip and make your best Impression. 

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Dry Gin

Impression Dry Gin

Impression Spirits

Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin is the baby of Four Pillars, the firstborn so to speak. It's the concept that brought Four Pillars on this journey ... a really modern Australian gin.
 
The aim was to create a gin that represented the idea of ​​a contemporary Australia: classic, accessible, perfectly seasoned and spiced up with great citrus fruits. Above all, dangerously tasty and made to enjoy the best gin drinks in the world, always with a perfect G&amp;T.
 
The starting point was the clean, bright waters of the Yarra Valley, some of the best in the world. Then nine signature botanicals plus whole oranges were selected to give a highly aromatic character, a Mediterranean warmth to support the more flavorful botanicals like cardamom.
 
Each of these elements (and a lot of love) were distilled together in a magnificent Wilma copper kettle made in Germany until we had a wonderfully clean spirit full of taste.
 
Botanicals come from around the world to capture the essence of contemporary Australian heritage in Europe and Asia.

Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin

Four Pillars Gin

Four Pillars Distillery is in Melbourne’s Yarra Valley, beautiful cool climate wine country. We’d have to be crazy not to take advantage of it. 

So back in 2015 that’s what we did. We were happily making gin out the back of our mate Rob Dolan’s winery, and in late April a tiny parcel of Shiraz came in from one of the region’s best vineyards. Rob wasn’t sure what to do with it, so we took it off his hands – perhaps without his knowledge…

It seemed perfectly obvious to Cam Mackenzie that we should steep these grapes in Rare Dry Gin to see what happened. 

The result was alcoholic alchemy… the juice turned a magical purple colour and found a sweetness straight from the ripe grapes. 

So now each year we take local Shiraz fruit, steep the whole berries in high-proof gin for eight weeks before pressing. The colour remains a deep, rich, reddish purple. Aromatically it shows fresh pine needles, citrus and spice, and distinct peppery, dense raspberry notes. The palate is lovely and sweet with a long juniper and spice character on the finish.

The marriage of our Rare Dry Gin botanicals with the most delicious Shiraz fruit on the planet. No added sugar. None. Ever.

Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin

From the Outback to the front bar, WW is rugged elegance in every sip.
A fair dinkum rip snorter of a spirit that is guaranteed to put a smile on your dial.
Staunched and spirited, this remarkably soft gin is distilled in a modern multi plate column still from Australian wheat, diluted with fresh Australian spring water and then infused with our eleven botanicals recipe which results in what we believe a truly Australian Gin should taste like.
The WW Gin it’s free of any unnatural ingredients.
Drink it at ground level.
Distilled &amp; Bottled Down Under.

Wild Wombat Gin

NASC Spirits Aust. Pty Ltd.

Back in the nineteenth century gin was thought to be panacea to many things encountered on the high seas. The gimlet was invented by a doctor in the Royal Navy to ward off scurvy, with gin to fortify and Roses Lime cordial for Vitamin C. 

But several of the more gin-savvy officers of the Royal Navy suspected their supplies of gin were being diluted so they devised a test.

Often the gin was stored below deck adjacent to the gunpowder and if it was spilt onto the gunpowder and it smoked, the gin had been diluted. Only if the gunpowder still lit was the gin at least 114 proof (or 57% ABV). And so it became known as Navy Strength.

Four Pillars Navy Strength is a gin very much in the Four Pillars style, but with the volume turned up slightly beyond 11. Fresh ginger brings spiciness to the gin, while turmeric adds weight and a lovely earthiness. Also in the botanical basket are some native finger limes, grown in Byron Bay. They have an intensity of flavour that is almost impossible to believe, and they help the gin attain super citrus notes and lovely high-toned freshness.

At 58.8% ABV this gin can support some more robust and delicious botanicals from around the world.

Four Pillars Navy Strength Gin

This gin was originally an exclusive collaboration between Four Pillars Gin, QANTAS and the Rockpool Group.

Alongside some great native botanicals, Asian spices like Szechuan peppercorns gave it a lovely warm mouthfeel (a tiny bit like Neil Perry’s famous numbing duck dish from Spice Temple). Combined with local fruits and Australian macadamia nuts this gave us a gin with lots of softness and spice.

And then something not entirely unexpected happened. Everyone wanted in on this ‘secret’ gin they had seen in fancy restaurants and airport lounges.

We think of it as a modern Australian classic, strongly led on the nose and palate by lashings of juniper.

This traditional underpinning is supported by native lemon myrtle, quandong, macadamia nuts, fresh grapefruit peel, red and green Szechuan (because what would modern Australia be without Chinese flavours?) and fresh red apples.

The result is a bright and dry gin, made in a truly Australian way, and now available for everyone to share.

Four Pillars Modern Australian Gin

To harness the wattleseed flavours of roasted coffee, dark cocoa and toffee, three types of wattleseed are roasted and ground before pouring over the base gin to cold macerate. This also allows the protein lipids to balance the warmth of this higher percentage gin, creating a smooth yet rich taste. In combination with the light pine and citrus notes of juniper, blood lime and riverland orange, a strong gin with intense citrus aromas, complex roasted aromas and a lively golden hue is created.

Tasting Notes:
A bold higher proof gin distilled from a grape base, vapour infused botanicals and three species of house roasted native wattleseed. Well balanced, textural and citrus forward the warm palate shows rich underlying flavours of roasted coffee, cocoa and pepper.

Botanicals:
Acacia Victoriae: Stone fruit, dark chocolate & toffee 
Acacia Kempeana: Carob pod, dried fruit & sunflower seed 
Acacia Coriacea: Cocoa, roasted coffee & burnt sugar 
Juniper & Coriander: Fresh pine, resinous & spice 
Riverland Orange: Bright citrus notes 
Blood Lime:Mandarin peel, floral & purfumed 
Native Pepperberry: Spicy, peppery & hints of basil 

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Adelaide Hills Distillery 78˚ Desert Gin

Adelaide Hills Distillery

Produced in small batches utilising grape spirit, the 78˚ Classic Gin is vapour distilled using our unique column and basket distillation method, to retain delicate flavours and aromas.

Tasting Notes:
A complex and savoury Gin distilled from a grape base and vapour infused with 12 botanicals, selected specifically for their purity and quality. Pungently aromatic and displaying resinous, citrus and floral notes with underlying spice.

Botanicals: 
Juniper: Fresh pine and resinous notes
Coriander: Spice with citrus hints
Orange, Lemon, Lime: Bright citrus lift
Clove, Cinnamon, Black Pepper: Delicate, spicy base tones
Nutmeg, Star Anise: Herbaceous, grassy and intriguing
Orris, Angelica: Structure and violets while allowing other aromas to linger

Adelaide Hills Distillery 78˚ Classic Gin

‘Crafted for Better’ is a statement and mantra that reflects everything we believe in around quality hand-crafted spirits, sustainable production, the use of mindfully gathered Australian botanicals and the connection to local community. It is at the heart of what the distillery firmly believes will lead to a better, more enjoyable and more sustainable world.

Botanicals:
Juniper: Fresh pine and resinous notes
Coriander: Spice with citrus hints
Lemon Myrtle: Bright lemon sherbet and lemon verbena
Blood Lime: Acidic, crisp and clean
Pepper Berry: Organic herbal tones 

Adelaide Hills Distillery 78˚ Better Gin

The genesis of this gin was back in 2015 when we distilled a little drop called Cousin Vera’s Gin.

Made with our friends at Santamanía Destileria Urbana in Madrid, this was the first gin in our Distiller Series.

It was also was our first foray into savoury, Mediterranean-inspired gin flavours using fresh olives and rosemary.

Cousin Vera’s Gin came and went pretty quickly, but remains a cult classic in the Four Pillars canon for those who crave that savoury style.

After that collaboration, we knew gin and olives would combine beautifully and a trip to the olive groves of northern Victoria confirmed it for us.

It was after visiting Cobram Estate in Boundary Bend during olive harvest that we realised olive oil could be a brilliant botanical alongside dried olive leaves.

The aroma, flavour and texture of fresh olive is stunning, so we did an entire year of trials before finalising the recipe. The result is a completely delicious, savoury and bright gin.

Savoury botanicals like rosemary, bay and olive leaf combine with vibrant olive oil to transport you to the Mediterranean.

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